The Ex Effect (Washington Wolves, #2)

by Karla Sorensen

"She's a fucking idiot," I whispered when I finally looked at his face.

"I've missed you," I said into his chest, letting the work-shield down for just a second, just a tiny crack, just to say the words, even if they were so quiet that I hoped he didn't hear me. But he did. "Missed you too, Slim," he said back. I was so officially off-the-charts screwed.

"Still keep chocolate within arm’s reach at all times?" "As do all intelligent people who enjoy being happy."

Much later, when she was tucked against me in bed, her breathing deep and even against my chest as she slept, I said the words quietly against the silk of her hair as it tickled my chin. "I'm in love with you, Ava. But I don't think you're ready to hear it yet." Only then could I relax enough to fall asleep.

But I want to be able to say that you're mine. I don't want things to feel so easy that I stop making an effort for you every single day. I want to be able to say that I have a girlfriend, a partner who gets all the best parts of me because I get all the best parts of her. That we've committed to something together."

Charlotte Kuyper

Kuyper was the last name of the lawyer in The Bombshell Effect. I suppose there are a lot of Dutch people in Seattle (I should know, I'm mostly Dutch and I have/had a lot of family in that area LOL)... I just thought it was funny to use the same unusual surname for sub characters in two different books.

I need you do something

I need you TO do something

“I don’t even care about the ring,” I told him. His eyes searched mine, face full of such tenderness that my heart flipped over backward. “So I can return it then?”